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Baby, it’s cold outside….

Brit — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 14:35:54 +0000

This is the kind of day here in Ohio where it would be great to curl up in front of the fire with a good book. No such luck for me. Snow is coming down, tiny little flakes that don’t amount to much. However, like most people in the world, I have to head out to work. Before I go, I wanted to give out a shout to Lisa Pietsch, a fellow writer at Sapphire Blue Publishing. Her last name is pronounced peach…and she is one. Click on the image to check her out!

http://lisapietsch.com/

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New Cave Creek Cowboy is in the Works…

Brit — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:33:55 +0000

A comment from Susie, a faithful reader as she calls herself, has prompted me to write this. For those of you who read my Cave Creek Cowboy series, it’s getting long. I’m writing the ninth book now. It’s the ninth book, but the tenth story: There are two stories in Cave Creek Cowboy Christmas.

It’s Bev’s story. If you can’t remember who Bev is right off…she’s one of the six naked women from Cave Creek Cowboy Too Many Brides. She also had a cameo in Trailer Trash.

And while Bev may have been one of the most boring characters in the past…spoiled little rich girl without much depth, she’s about to do something bolder than any of her friends.

Now back to Susie’s question. She wanted to know the order of the Cave Creek Cowboy stories. If you’re just starting then this:

Is the book you want…

This a paperback and contains the first five stories.

Cave Creek Cowboy
Even after ten years, a cowboy’s broken heart can still be on the mend. What happens when he comes face to face with the woman who broke it?

Another Cave Creek Cowboy
Cowgirl Alicia Moore grew up on the wrong side of the tracks, spending most of her time wondering when one handsome cowboy would finally notice her…until she destroys any chance she ever had with him. Or will she find a way to make herself unforgettable?

Cave Creek Cowboy In Vegas
Is a wild night in Vegas just a cowboy letting off steam or is he fighting to win the heart of the only woman he’s ever loved?

Cave Creek Cowboy: Too Many Brides
For a cowboy on the prowl in Vegas, what’s waking up in a room with six naked women? He married one of them, though, but they aren’t talking and he can’t remember which one is his bride.

Cave Creek Cowboy Christmas
No more bull riding is a new beginning for rodeo stars Ray Kale and Steve Hansen. Will the greatest adventure of their lives begin with the love of a good woman?

Or you can purchase them separately in e-Book format, but you’ll pay more than if you’d gotten the paperback.

The rest of the stories are all in e-format…for your new Kindle or any e-reader!

Cave Creek Cowboy Kama
by Brit Blaise
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-160-9 (Electronic)

Kyle Hansen is the black sheep from the poster-family for dysfunctional relationships. His reputation as a hell-raising womanizer began at the ripe age of twenty-one when the woman he fell in love with became pregnant and didn’t want him. Since then he’s been on a mission to prove her right…he doesn’t deserve to find someone who’ll love him.

Juel Kelly’s world spins out of control when she comes face to face with the only man she’s ever loved. He’s unredeemable, incorrigible, and disrespectful, but she wants him as much as she always did, maybe even more. Teaching Kama Sutra had always come easily until she’s coerced into using her ex as a partner for a demonstration.

Unbeknownst to both Kyle and Juel, family and friends from Cave Creek have decided to get them together again. Can Kyle risk another rejection, and can Juel handle the heat from a Cave Creek cowboy?

Cave Creek Cowboy Ménage
by Brit Blaise
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-189-0 (Electronic)

When the heat turns from friendly to deadly…

A dynamite duo, Zandra and Spence are best friends with a history of sexual exploits. When a handsome cowboy joins them, three isn’t a crowd, just pure raucous fun for all.

But something goes wrong. What starts as amusing entertainment with a splash of kink, becomes complicated for Zandra. She can’t control her emotions. What’s worse, Jake brings more to the ménage than anyone suspects—a desperate stalker.

Jake’s already questioning whether the experimentation is messing with his mind, not because of Zandra’s bisexual friend, Spence, but because Zandra awakens feelings he’d wanted to bury forever. Even worse, she’s missing and everyone thinks he’s to blame. Jake’s life is what he wants, freedom to fulfill his every desire and some he didn’t know he had. He doesn’t need a six-foot-tall blond complication…

Genres

Cave Creek Cowboy Trailer Trash
by Brit Blaise
ISBN-13: 978-1-60272-592-8 (Electronic)

What happens when a rich cowboy, broken by loss and life, meets a woman who thinks she’s trailer trash, not good enough for him?

Caren started down the wrong road in life when she became pregnant at fifteen. Now at thirty-four, she’s divorced and living in a dump of a trailer. She spent the last ten years of her life sacrificing for her child, yet her teenaged daughter hates her and wants nothing to do with her. So when a single night with a handsome cowboy presents itself, Caren jumps at the chance to forget her troubles and live a little.

J. R. is just trying to make it through each lonely night. He’s lost everything worth living for, and he’s not interested in starting over. He simply wants a good time with no strings attached. But when he meets Caren, he suddenly discovers his heart isn’t as dead as he once believed. After their night together, Caren makes him yearn for more.

But a one-night-stand can’t heal years of pain—or can it? MORE?

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SInce I’ve already jinxed it…

Brit — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:27:47 +0000

This book was released almost a year ago and just yesterday I mentioned to Rachel, a local writer, that it was listed in All Romance’s Top Ten in Romantic Comedy.

Hence the jinx…for the first time in a long time it dropped to number eleven. The same thing happened with Wild Cowboy Domination.

As soon as I mentioned how well it was doing…BAM!

It dropped in the Shapeshifter list.

How important are the lists to you when you pick a book?

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Spring has sprung…

Brit — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:02:02 +0000

These are some of our first flowers. Last year, we moved in this house the second week of May…or maybe the third. The flowers didn’t do well because of a late freeze. Now we’re discovering there may be a lot to see here this spring.

This is where we were a year ago…let’s see, cacti or flowers?

I’d trade for the cacti!

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Free time?

Brit — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:55:15 +0000

Free time? It’s been so long now since I’ve experienced it. I work out of the house a couple of days of week, so I don’t lose my last professional license. I’ve already allowed most of them to expire; the Series 7, 63, 65 and insurance. I didn’t enjoy being a stockbroker. Now I’m back to trading daily for my own amusement. But even that doesn’t hold much interest.

Writing consumes me.

This month I’ve turned in a story to AQ and have another I’ve committed to that needs to be turned in before the month ends. The galley for Lady in a Box arrived yesterday and I need to proof it. The story I’m working on, Unchained Melody has me stumped. I have another story due next month and then four more over the next few months. A new publisher has approached me for a story and I agreed. I owe my New York publisher an option book. And I’ve not yet submitted to Kate Duffy, per her request from finalling and winning the Brava Anthology Reader’s Choice. When do I have time to fry deviled eggs?

In all honesty, it never would have occurred to me. What I would like to do now that I’m back in Ohio…paint. I want to paint pictures of covered bridges and old barns. And trees…I like to paint trees…but I hate climbing ladders…

Coming in two weeks!

The walls of the box are four men…the lady has nerve! www.butterscotchmartinigirls.com www.myspace.com/britblaise

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I took the test…did I pass?

Brit — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 14:48:07 +0000

This is the results:

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery – when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

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Jenny is back to bug me…

Brit — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:08:28 +0000

When Jenny stalked into the room I almost swallowed my tongue. If it hadn’t gotten caught in my broken partial wire, I would have.

“What are you doing here?”

Jenny sniggered at my question and set the tone…surly.

I bided my time, drinking her in, the ball cap hiding her hair, the gun rig at her shoulders, faded denim tight across her thighs, but belled out at the ankles, both of them. More than likely she was carrying concealed too. The metallic 1911 in her shoulder hostler made me think of Daken, her husband.

Where was he? Why had he let Jenny out of his sight? Hadn’t I taught him anything? Jenny was hell on wheels and she needed a keeper.

“I know what you’re thinking,” Jenny said. “Daken isn’t here because it pisses me off to see you drool over him.”

“Sorry, Jen.” I turned back to my computer to hit save. “Right now I’m more interested in Kaze.”

She huffed. “Yeah, right. Keep telling yourself that. Is that why you gave me a scene in Kaze’s story?”

I didn’t want to talk about it. I didn’t understand why I’d been compelled to write her into my latest story and give her a hot sex scene with her husband and toys, lots of them. As an author. I’m not supposed to do that. It’s not moving the story forward…its regression of the worst possible kind.

“What do you want? I’m behind on this story and now you have me rattled.”

She gave a consoling nod, like I’d gotten through to her. “What are you working on?”

“It’s a short story, The Blood Club. Vampires. Maybe fallen angels. Lately fallen angels have been trying to invade my stories.”

Jenny tapped her foot impatiently on slick wooden floor of my familyroom. She’d never visited me here, but she didn’t seem curious about her surroundings. The last time I’d seen her was during my short stay in the Victorian in town. This is a really cool room and if she didn’t or couldn’t take a sec to notice, a disturbing thought occurred to me. All wasn’t well with the warriors. I opened my mouth to ask when she faded away.

Gone.

What do I do now?

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Help for new bloggers

Brit — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:07:20 +0000

How to post on a blog from someone who has a shadow of a very small clue.

As the BMG’s (the butterscotch martini girls) are learning to blog, one of the problems we’ve encountered is a misaligned page. I don’t know the technical term for it. It’s when a new post falls below the boxes because it won’t fit. All you see is blank space unless you scroll down to find the actual post.

This happened to me continually when I first began to post. My daughter Tiffany would tell me what to do to fix it…I would try…grow frustrated…whine…bitch…and then she’d do it for me. It’s happened a few times when other BMG’s post, and I’d go to her to fix it.

Yesterday, one of the BMG’s posted and it happened again. Now, I’m going to really learn how to fix this. I already had an idea, and personally did way better because I didn’t want to bug Tiff. I want to be able to explain this to someone else who encounters the problem. And the BMG who had the problem came to me for the answer. I had a clue, but not an answer!

First of all, the only time this has ever happened is when I paste my post. And I almost always pasted in the past. I still do. I’d learned tricks to avoid the dreaded misalignment which would take me running to Tiffany.

Right now, as I’m typing, I’m doing it first on a word doc and not directly onto the blog. However, now I begin by typing the format first. I guess that’s a minor form of coding. I type the code I use, and then proceed to type my post. The code keeps my words in the correct font and the proper length to fit the space on the BMG blog. If I typed the code I use right now, it would disappear once I posted it to the blog.

Between each paragraph, I type the code for space. It’s the word space with <> before and after. If I don’t do that…everything runs together when I paste.

What I haven’t learned to do, is keep my spaces from disappearing when I go back to edit once I’ve corrected a mistake I find. And I always find one. BMG, Tina is the cleanest writer I’ve ever met. She writes darn near perfect from the get go. I, on the other hand, am a disaster. I leave words out, I misspell, and I generally can create a mess. Even after I’ve edited…there will still be errors. When I go back into the post after it’s been published, the code I wrote for my spaces disappears. If anyone out there has fix…please let me know.

Back to pasting…don’t do it unless you know exactly what’s getting transferred to your blog post. Are there invisible boxes? Is there invisible code? Remember, I said I type code and then when I paste my post…the code disappears. If someone comes along and snags my words…they will also be snagging my invisible code.

Back to the misaligned text…there’s another fix. After you login, go to USERS, which brings up the Personal Profile page. At the bottom is a box under “Personal Options”. If you UNcheck the box, it makes plain text. This will take away any code you’ve inadvertently included when you pasted.

This is for the BMG’s blog. When I pointed out going to USERS brought up the Personal Profile, this isn’t the case with every blog. What you are looking for is the WY-SIG or RICH TEXT EDITOR.

I know any techies out there will be laughing their butts off at my attempt to explain this. Oh well. I’m not going to let it stop me from trying.

Brit Blaise

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A quick jump start to the day…

Brit — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:58:10 +0000

that doesn’t include coffee. My head is spinning from all the projects I have started right now. One just past the galley stage, one at the contract negotiation and soon to editing stage and a third about 75% done for a third house which needs to be finished ASAP. The third publisher has a full length manuscript I could possibly see in the edit stage at any time…

I have several other stories, probably 6 in various stages of the process, but mostly with a good portion written. And I’m sitting here trying to stop myself from beginning a new story swirling in my head when I have no business going there!

Fighting the lure of a Gentleman Pirate… (Stay in there. I’ll get to you as soon as I can.)

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Brit’s Affirmation of the Day!

Brit — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 14:45:04 +0000

I will practice listening to my gut until I learn to trust my first impression.

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